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13 Reasons the 49ers are Better than the Cardinals and should Beat them

Here are 13 reasons the 49ers are better than the Arizona Cardinals and should beat them on Sunday.
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13 Reasons the 49ers are Better than the Cardinals and should Beat them
13 Reasons the 49ers are Better than the Cardinals and should Beat them

Here are 13 reasons the 49ers are better than the Arizona Cardinals and should beat them on Sunday.

1. The 49ers have the better head coach. Cardinals head coach Kliff Kingsbury is a creative offensive coordinator but hasn't shown the ability to win, which is kind of important. Kyle Shanahan seems to know how to win after losing lots of games his first two seasons in San Francisco. Kingsbury's career win-loss record dating back to college is just 40-50-1.

2. The 49ers have the better defensive coordinator. Robert Saleh is fantastic. Vance Joseph is not.

3. The 49ers' superior coaching staff has had all offseason to prepare for this game.

4. The 49ers are at home.

5. The 49ers have a better offensive line than the Cardinals.

6. The 49ers have a better defensive line than the Cardinals.

7. The 49ers have better linebackers than the Cardinals.

8. The 49ers have better running backs than the Cardinals.

9. The 49ers have better tight ends than the Cardinals.

10. The 49ers have more experience and pedigree. They went to the Super Bowl last season -- they know they're good. The Cardinals won five games. They have no idea if they're good or what they are yet.

11. The Cardinals' big offseason acquisition -- All Pro wide receiver DeAndre Hopkins --missed part of training camp and hasn't had the benefit of a preseason to get acclimated to a new offense.

12. The Cardinals coaching staff may not know how best to use Hopkins yet.

13. The 49ers can cover Hopkins with Richard Sherman.

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Grant Cohn has covered the San Francisco 49ers daily since 2011. He spent the first nine years of his career with the Santa Rosa Press Democrat where he wrote the Inside the 49ers blog and covered famous coaches and athletes such as Jim Harbaugh, Colin Kaepernick and Patrick Willis. In 2012, Inside the 49ers won Sports Blog of the Year from the Peninsula Press Club. In 2020, Cohn joined FanNation and began writing All49ers. In addition, he created a YouTube channel which has become the go-to place on YouTube to consume 49ers content. Cohn's channel typically generates roughly 3.5 million viewers per month, while the 49ers' official YouTube channel generates roughly 1.5 million viewers per month. Cohn live streams almost every day and posts videos hourly during the football season. Cohn is committed to asking the questions that 49ers fans want answered, and providing the most honest and interactive coverage in the country. His loyalty is to the reader and the viewer, not the team or any player or coach. Cohn is a new-age multimedia journalist with an old-school mentality, because his father is Lowell Cohn, the legendary sports columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle from 1979 to 1993. The two have a live podcast every Tuesday. Grant Cohn grew up in Oakland and studied English Literature at UCLA from 2006 to 2010. He currently lives in Oakland with his wife.

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